Allen levine

I cut new wheels today went from 3/4 inch Spanish cedar to almost 1 and 1/4 sapele and it was a difficult cut using a 9 blade still need a touch of sanding and I need to glue the wheels on prolly spray with a bit of lacquer to darken it up water bottle in pic to show size i might add a surf board rack on top with a board

So this is where I'm at its not really a monster truck as my grandson calls any suv with huge tires and raised high off ground i m trying to remember the beach buggy that was a modified jeep grand Cherokee body that the kid let my grandson go in on the beach in st Augustine florida i recall some details but it's just a wooden model i out a stick shift inside im not happy I didn't do something with steering wheel but one more time it's just a wood model laugh if you want I'm just having a little fun how does the song go? Boys just wanna have fun? im making new wheels 1 and 1/8 inch thick the ones in pic are 3/4 i will make rear light guards and put the spare 5 th wheel on back as the vehicle I remember had the tire on back it might block the rear light guards but hey its only a model i need to do some light sanding to get rid of excess glue most of the glue stuck my fingers together I'm stink at pictures so I took a bunch for most angles the guy in Florida had a double row of fog lights on top as well as a shovel gas can and 2 surfboards on top I'll skip all that

I can't work on it this weekend got the little one but he can't seem to keep up with his grandpa I have to remake the wheels they are too thin for the look I want

i was already told the wheel supports grain orientation might make them suseptable to snapping off, but this one is going on a shelf in my office, noone, not even the monster boy coming over tomorrow gets to touch it. so it should be safe when its done

Inside without body panels

I got this far today this weekend is gone as I'm picking up the 4 year old little monster and he expects his old crippled grandpa to give him uninterrupted attention morning noon and night I made it a four seater with space in between seats I'll put a shift stick in when I do the dash board and ateeeing wheel and some dials it will get a roof rack some fog lights light guards and whatever else I can make nothing is glued or sanded and I tried to hold it together with tape for a pic outer panels are sapele 3/8 th inch outside body parts are Spanish cedar 1 and 1/4 and inside body part is poplar 1 inch used a Flying Dutchman psr 9 blade for body parts and psr 7 for sapele panels the 7 blade was a bit aggressive maybe could have went down to a 3 but I'm learning have a look

Ok this one is a mystery to me my buddies complained I need a shop dog so I made one months ago

I'm not sure if I can post this so if it's breaking rules I'm not offended if it's deleted the reason I say this is I was going to make another Steve good monster truck I blew up the wheel pattern 150 percent and decided to just make my own design not sure of it will work but I'll give it a shot i never designed anything except tables or cabinets so this is a stretch for me good thing if it fails it's not a large amount of wood im using the wheels I already cut but making my own pattern so this is where I'm not sure the wheels are goods patterns I hade them made i laid them out on grid paper and when I start cutting parts I'll mark off which lines I need to follow for each part i plan on making the cab 3 sections approx 4 inches wide with 2 side sections all accessories like roof rack spare tire fog lights etc will be measured an cut after I get initial body done so I don't waste a lot of time cutting them if I'm it happy with the results just finished pattern and made a bunch of copies I saw a bunch of these suv type beach buggies on the beaches in florida like broncos or jeeps all hyped up with over sized wheels so that's what I'm going for

And this morning he is doing the final sanding and attaching axles and wheels to the tow truck and car we made he will paint after his nap and my nap a 4 year old and 2 year wears out this old man

My client paid me with hugs took him all of 3 minutes to pull off a wheel but we took care of that he's a happy camper and his sister liked her mermaid

Finished im not thrilled with the seam in the center of the two body parts but my 4 year old grandson won't notice and I know he's going to ask me for more

great project, great work thanx for sharing

wowser, that is some beautiful pieces of art.

He's now getting into Lego sets my son is 42 and has a Lego room in his house he buys plastic display cases to keep his most favored set ups like roller coasters from legos He loves building sets with his nephew and teaching him

4 hours into this one sapele for outer layers walnut for tires i I love the way he designed the wheels used scroll to cut them out them on bandsaw tilting the table to 15 degrees to cut treads its the small things all parts came out of cut off bins still need to make steering wheel dashboard and bumpers dowels for axel and smokestacks used rubber bands for pics to hold together to see progress

My other nephew in Florida is having a boy in a few weeks so I made him this he has a 3 year old daughter my wife made him a baby shark quilt he is a big fisherman he has travelled all over the world to fish from Alaska for halibut to Thailand for whatever species he was looking for there

My wife wants it I was very surprised I showed her what a blue background would look like she wanted this color even though I'm not for a backing after 46 years of marriage I know the secret don't argue with the boss and always give her what she wants Tung oil finish I might add another coat tomorrow back isn't attached yet

It might have been desplaines or rosemount i I know we were close to O hare I used to be part of a gambling forum that is now gone a friend of ours keeps inviting us out there he lives near desplaines and he visits rivers casino often

Better pic of it

Made a mistake here I felt my leg burning as I turned on the small floor heater next to scroll and bent down to move air flow but my hand slipped and I advanced a cut too far second pic shows advanced mistake cut used walnut on this piecei I need to sand and clean up some rough spots but it's finished as far as cutting ill apply some oil to give it a deep rich color and I'll see if I want to add a colored background or not the only difference from his pattern is I rounded over the edge on the base ill keep this piece since I made the error but I like it my nephew had a few fish tanks he's really into his tanks and told me he's taking the angel fish piece since he has angel fish so I won't show him this one hehehehe

when we went down to biloxi a few years back, I think the second or third time, my wife made me drive to a small town hamilton missouri....the home of missouri star quilt company. this woman started out of her house, then her son brought her to internet, and she is one of the largest retail dealers of quilting supplies in this country.....the town has maybe a dozen stores owned by her company, its actually all there is there, besides a restaurant and a small motel, which she probably owns also. was out of my way, but my wife had to go. in july we will head down to nc and stop outside of ashville, weaverville, another one of my wifes favorite stores, and we were glad to hear she didnt suffer damage during that hurricane in ashville, as weaverville is only a few miles north of ashville. and out of all the stores weve visited, the only store we found a nasty owner was in chicago. its like she didnt want us in there spending money, so we left. and we have found stores in the corn fields of nebraska, south dakota, in the mojave desert over in arizona, near the airport in reno nevada, and so on and so on.

We road trip all over the country and have found quilt shops out in the middle of nowhere my favorite was while driving from Blackhawk Colorado to deadwood South Dakota we stopped overnight in a city called lusk lusk wyoming trust me there's nothing in the town but it had a large active quilt store we also visit a lot of the stores my wife orders from

Every spare inch of my tiny little cape style house is devoted to fabric or finished quilts way ahead of you and she wants more units and I made her a 7 foot high design wall and have made quilt hanger units for her friend also even the back of closet doors are loaded up

Made this for my wife who has become an avid quilter Spanish cedar no finish 3/4 inch thick took me approx 8 hours of time ive seen quilting queen plaques made of wood for 5.99 so scrolling is not a way to make money I'm guessing to site administration if I'm putting too many of this small scroll projects on here please feel free well I mean you can erase them if they are using too much bandwidth not sure if I should keep posting these small projects